I do know that Elbert Rhodes b= 1841 kentucky brother of Wesley Rhodes married Sarah Cummings b= Tn daughter of William Cummings b=1780 NC and Sarah Meek 1782b= KentuckyThe Meek family was the first of many families to settle Kentucky before it was a State.The Rhodes lived in Hickman Kentucky and moved to Mo. and Illinois.

My Rhodes family is a long way back, so I would like to provide information about a family history book, rather than submit my limited Rhodes tree. I will then scratch my head a bit about not finding any mention here of the book. The book is Howard J. Rhodes. 1959. The Rhodes family in America. Greenwich Book Publishers, New York. It seems to be particularly well-written and informative as family history books go. The patriarch of the book is John Rhodes b. 1747, m. Hannah Graves. Their daughter Sarah Rhodes is my 3d great grandmother.

So far I have not found any mention here (with admittedly cursory searches) of the book or of John Rhodes and Hannah Graves. They spent their early lives in Massachusetts, then moved to Trumble County, Ohio. That county had a considerable population of Rhodes land owners during the first half of the 1800s.

If anyone else is in this line, or wants to discuss possible links to that line, I would be interested to hear from you.